It's telling that this game has 10 routes that are all around as good as each other and yet the game only lets you play four of them- this concept does not have legs to last more than one or two play sessions. Even my visual novel-addled self fell into a rhythm of clicking through swaths of dialogue in the fourth run looking for text i hadn't seen and this game made me struggle to give a shit.
That said it's about as well-executed as you could possibly get on this threadbare a concept. The drawings and the voice acting get obvious commendation but even more important is the obvious mastery of the RenPy engine, used and abused to great effect.
All in all it immediately establishes a novel mystique and energy that never really fully fade. It's like the first third of Inscryption if you chopped it off and let it walk around by itself.
That said it's about as well-executed as you could possibly get on this threadbare a concept. The drawings and the voice acting get obvious commendation but even more important is the obvious mastery of the RenPy engine, used and abused to great effect.
All in all it immediately establishes a novel mystique and energy that never really fully fade. It's like the first third of Inscryption if you chopped it off and let it walk around by itself.